Battery technology is big business and will be even bigger over coming years as a global energy and transport infrastructure built on and for hydrocarbons continues to transition towards electrification. ...

Sci-fi is famously a starting point and inspiration for scientific breakthroughs and new technologies that have stepped out of the realms of fiction and into fact – smartphones and wearables, cloning, automatic doors, voice control and the internet, to name ...

The largest mining companies in the world, the likes of Rio Tinto, BHP, Anglo-American and Glencore, are worth tens to hundreds of billions of dollars. Global industry and manufacturing rely on them for the raw metals and minerals required to ...

The electrification of personal and public transport has gathered pace in recent years. Newly electrified urban bus networks are popping up in towns and cities around the world. International Energy Agency (IEA) figures show sales of electric cars tripled between ...

The technology giant Microsoft claims it has made a significant breakthrough in its mission to develop commercially viable quantum computing – a technology seen by many as one that will make even AI developments look pedestrian. ...

Technology able to read our thoughts is rapidly progressing. Elon Musk’s Neuralink is attempting to develop chips implanted directly into the brain, acting like interfaces between man and machine. The company recently received permission to start testing on humans. ...

Despite its role as the world’s factory, Chinese car makers have historically never really established themselves internationally. However, the transition from ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles to EVs (electric vehicles) is changing that. ...

Crypto advocates in the US fear the country’s authorities are determined to stamp out the sector in its current form after regulators sued Binance and its chief executive Changpeng Zhao. The cryptocurrency exchange, the world’s biggest, stands accused of “wilful ...

In early March, the condensed-matter physicist Ranga Dias and a team at New York’s University of Rochester made a big claim. Dias and his team announced a newly engineered material they claim possesses the kind of superconductor properties that could ...

A crackdown on the crypto sector by U.S. regulators that started last year has gathered pace. A series of probes have been announced, fines handed out and settlements reached with major players in the space. Among the crypto companies to ...